#rao's asks

[ecle-c-tic]

Middle Earth Asks

🥔 po-tay-toes: one of the hobbits invited you for a meal; who are dining with? Which of the seven meals are you enjoying?

🍞 lembas bread: what's the best road trip snack?

🌾farmer maggot's field: what is your favourite plant? Do you enjoying gardening?

🌼 simbelmynë: You've got the opportunity to bring one character back to life, who is it?

🍃 leaves of lórien: what gift would you most like to receive?

📽 action!: rank all six of the films (or three if you're a hater)

🚲 bicycle basket: what is your favourite middle earth meme?

🌟starlight: you're allowed to live in one of the Elf Kingdoms of Middle Earth, which one are you picking?

💀 Hey, did you know-: What is your favourite piece of behind the scenes trivia?

🌙 moon runes: which of Tolkien's languages would you most like to speak?

🧂 best salt in all the shire: which small joys do you most look forward to? (particular tea, using a perfume, rereading a book, etc.)

✂ cutting room floor: of all of the things that didn't quite make it into the movies, what would you have most liked to see?

☕ may I tempt you with a cup of chamomile?: What is your favourite hot beverage?

🐎 bill the pony: who is the best mount in all of middle earth?

🌳 fangorn forest: Which of Tolkien's creechurs is your favourite?

🔮 palantír: you've found a palantir! Who are you hitting up in middle earth? What are you telling them?

⏳ time and age: which poorly aged scene from LOTR is your favourite?

✨ evenstar: Who is your favourite middle earth couple?

🎆 fireworks: you're invited to Bilbo's 111th, what present do you think you'd receive?

🕷 creepy crawlies: which of tolkien's creatures do you think is the most frightening?

💍 my precious: what role do you think you'd play in the fate of the ring?

📜the company of Throin II Oakenshield: who is your favourite dwarf from the company?

🕶 i care not: what common complaint about the movies or novels doesn't bother you?

📢 motivational speech: which film speech do you find most invigorating?

🔥 barbecue: who is the worst antagonist?

🍿 popcorn: list your top 5 supporting characters

🎇 firefly: which (known) deleted scene would you most like to see?

⛏ expedition to Moria: which side character's adventures would you watch a spin-off movie about?

🎞 extra film: is there an extended scene that should have absolutely made it into the theatrical cut? which one and why?

🎵 can you sing, master hobbit?: Which song (from books or movies) is your favourite?

🖋 quill and ink: which of tolkien's themes resonates most strongly with you?

🗝 lost heirloom: which heirloom/object in the films or novels would you like to learn more about?

💿 leitmotifs and orchestras: which of the films songs (Howard Shore or singer) is your favourite?

🍲eowyn's home cooking: which other way could the ring be destroyed? (funny answers only)

🧙‍♂️precisely when he means to: what is your favourite gandalf moment?

⚔ you have my sword: what is your favourite aragorn moment?

🏹 and my bow: what is your favourite legolas moment?

🪓and my axe: what is your favourite gimli moment?

🍄 MUSHROOMS!: what is your favourite moment from the hobbits?

💎 the arkenstone: favourite Thorin and/or company moment?

🧵 spool: list your top five favourite costumes from any of the films.

📕 the red book of westmarch : what is your favourite quote(s)?

💛 family: what is your favourite family moment throughout the novels/films?

👀 the eye of sauron: who are you looking at disrespectfully?

🗺 arda: if you could travel anywhere in middle earth, where would you go?

👑the silver crown: the war is won, the world is saved, the king has been crowned. Who are you partying with at the coronation?

✏ rewrites: here's a pencil, which ONE thing in the novels/films are you changing?

🐺 GROND GROND GROND: which of the battles is your favourite to watch? is there a combat scene in particular that you enjoy?

⚠ fucking buckleberry ferry: from the clip of Dom and Billy discussing the one swear word they could theoretically get by censors, which line would you change?

📚 boxset: how were you first introduced to Middle Earth?

🏔 the misty mountains: the pass is treacherous, which two characters are you taking with you to make it over the mountains?

🌄 the rolling hills of the shire: what is your favourite outdoor activity?

🌋 mount doom: what middle earth take are you throwing into the fire?

⚙ technology: everything is exactly the same but you can give one character a modern invention. Who is it and what are you giving them?

⛵valinor: we're approaching the end of this game, is there a take/opinion you absolutely want to share?

🦅 the eagles: What thing or thought saves the day when it's not going so well?

🦗 weta: you're allowed to take one prop (or the canon useful version) home with you from the set, what are you taking?

☀ when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer: either share a piece of good news or something you're looking forward to.

📖 final chapter: what unanswered questions do you have middle earth?

#lotr #middle earth #the hobbit #tolkien #lord of the rings #ask games #asks #lotr asks #full disclosure i've read the hobbit 5 times and the trilogy once #I haven't started the salmon riot yet #never seen RoP #and i've seen all of the movies (lotr and hobbit) about 1000000 times now :) #chaos mix of MidEarth questions and personal qs #i didn't spell check whoops (its too hot for editing) #i also did the emojis on my laptop so if they don't match well just ignore that #rao's games #rao's asks #this was a fever dream (i wrote the word strongelist a one point) #the worst part about making stuff is walking away from your device afterwards bc I want to constantly refresh my notes 😭

[plinchy]

Curious are you able to show the Tobi notes from the book? I do not think I have ever seen them and any Tobi content is blessing for me!

Sure thing !!! I don't have a scanner so I hope these pictures from my phone are good enough.

First image (left) is character art and description

The second picture (right) is artists notes on designing tobi. The book is amaziiing. There are so many notes from the art director and how they approached designing characters, and how they changed too

My favorite is the canine warriors. Apparently they were originally designed as humans !

Here's the cover if youre lookin to get one yourself

#twptwp #ask #okami #i remember thinking this game was so fucking cool from the trailer and screen shots in my game informer magazine #but when i met rao and ammy stared at her badonkers #thats when i knew this was my favorite game

[jaskiersbard]

I went to the cinema and watched a throwback screening of Inception this evening… I will now be requiring 2-5 business days to recover because my entire being is shook to its core.

For those unaware, Inception is now one of my favourite movies after I watched it properly a few weeks ago. It’s an amazing film regardless of how you watch it, but seeing it on the big screen with proper cinema speakers and in the dark? It hits completely differently. 100% would watch it again on the big screen - truly a cinematic masterpiece from start to finish ❤️

#is it normal to shed a little tear at the end? asking for a friend #inception #personal #christopher nolan #cinema #poetic cinema #leonardo dicaprio #elliot page #tom hardy #dileep rao #joseph gordon levitt #ken watanabe #marion cotillard #cillian murphy

[thirteen-abalone]

Courier's Call S3!

I'm super excited for season 3 of Skyjacks: Courier's Call. It's a kid-lit podcast (and how many of those are there?) that combines the deep and fascinating world of Skyjacks with the good-hearted fun of kid adventurers, apprentices with the Swiftwell Courier Service!

Season 2 ended with our main party splitting up to work on different skyships until the end of their current mail route. I've put together a wishlist of things I'd like to see in the montage before the players meet up again in Thornvale.

1. I want Kiran to visit the Information Desk in Burza Nyth so bad!!! We know they work with the Grey Audron!!

I want June to meet Hildred. I don't know where Hildred is or what she's been doing, but I think a professional bird rider with a falcon named Victory would be Peak role model for June

I want Cece to meet a Luminary. don't know who, don't know when, but I am Craving more Lumen magic

If you know Skyjacks, or if you love fantasy stories, or if you just like quality AP, support the Courier's Call kickstarter! I really want to see them get to their 30 episode stretch-goal.

#skyjacks #couriers call #kiran rao #cecelia whitwick #june hymnal #for anyone asking #if we were on the playground picking sides #i'd want to be June #the scrappy fighter with the magic to connect and magically speak to animals? fuck yeah

[mxnkeydo]

WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE TPQ CHARACTER

AHHHHHHH I CANT DECIDE

i cant pick one bc all of them are amazing in their own ways but

aru bc she’s well…she’s just ARU she’s that clumsy awkward girl but she’s such a brave heroine and lives swedish fish to death i love her

aiden because he always keeps his cool and always so fed up with aru. also the fact that he calls her shah always makes me scream every time (c’mon scream with me AHHHHHHHH—)

brynne bc she’s such a protective mama bird and we both love food lmao and her sarcasm is the best

mini bc she spews our random facts all the time and puts up with all the shit the potatoes do and she’s brave in her own way

and all the side characters are so well written like rudy, nikki, sheela and kara. roshani chokshi writes so well it’s hard to not like any character

what about you??

#sorry for the big explanation #lmao #it’s the truth #tpq #proud tpq fangirl #aru shah #thanks for the ask!

[maitaiwiththecorpses]

Indecisive Mat

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

do it.

save me from Khan Academy.

#also feel free to drop an ask #aru shah #roshani chokshi #the pandava quintet #aiden acharya #aruden #lightning smolder #aru shah and the city of gold #aru shah and the end of time #aru shah and the nectar of immortality #aru shah and the song of death #aru shah and the tree of wishes #mini x rudy #mindy #mini kapoor mercado lopez #yamini kapoor mercado lopez #prince rudra of naga loka #brynne rao #brynne tvarika lakshmi balamuralikrishna rao #hira #hirynne #poll

[swans-chirping-in-the-distance]

i want your thoughts on brynne

E JDKDDLFL okayshe is literally SUCH a girlboss brynne is a literal queen. Her relationship with the others (like aiden) is incredible. It's been a while since I read the books but she's awesome. I didn't like her at first imma be honest, but after a little ways into the book, I actually loved her.

#thanks for the ask <3 #brynne rao #tpq #aru shah #the pandava quintet

[saavn]

HIIIII ANGEL I JUST SAW THE TAGS ON THAT TED LASSO SET U RB'D FROM ME AND IM DOING A CRY NOW 💔💔💔💔 u are just the cutestttt but u have to let us know how ur finding it !!! who are ur favourites so far hehe :D 🩷💜🤍

rao hii!! omg dont cryyy, thank u for stopping by 🥰🥰 & bless you for your ted lasso rbs, i dont know why i assumed ted lasso was like a generic dull netflix-type show but im glad to be wrong, this show has so much heart 🥺 i finished s1 ep 8 last night and i can't wait to get back to it & see whether rebecca tells ted the truth or not

as for favorites so far i like everyone but god. keeley jones has my whole entire heart <33 everything we've seen of her has been great, her dynamic with rebecca has been really nice and after the way that episode ended i hope they find a way to still be friends 😭 also i have the strongest feeling her and roy don't stay together but that scene in the press conference room was so cuuuute 🤧

but omg enough about me, who are your faves? what season was your favorite? im almost done with season 1, what was your fave moment from there? also please tell me keeley stays til the end 😩 i couldn't bear it if the character got written off

#pls feel free to drop by any time it was lovely to have you 💕💕 #rao tag #asks

[absolutebl]

Hi P’ABL! I was watching Be Mine Superstar, and heard that when Title confessed, he said something like “leuy rak nai?”

I kinda thought that luey was “at all,” or “totally” and I’m not sure about nai. What’s up with that? Is it another honorific?

are you sue it wasn't rao?

Rao, the we pronoun, can be used as the I pronoun by certain characters in certain circumstances.

It can often sound like an l instead of an r so sounds like:

laah-owe

Pete uses it in Love By Chance as the first person pronoun often, so that should tell you the personality type most often associated with it.

Sorry but I'm not rewatching Be Mine Superstar to check for you.

Rao would be unusual paired with nai, but not unheard of.

Nai is a formal and slightly old fashioned you pronoun for men with other men (equal, superior, or workplace formal). It's used in the business and gangster sphere, so we hear it in office BLs and crime ones (KinnPorsche, Unforgotten Night). Currently Est's character (On the bodyguard) is using it in Naughty Babe with Yi. You'll hear him say "Kap, Nai" = the Thai version of Yessir.

Oddly (for those new to Thai) nai is usually paired with chan as the first person. Yes, spoken by a man. Although I think Est is using pom, because his character is younger than Yi.

Nai, like pom, is one of the few fully gendered pronouns. Only males can use it, and only on other males. It comes from the time of noble families, and was far more common on TV before the Thai censors relaxed their stance on guu/mueng in the 70s.

#asked and answered #thai pronouns #thai linguistics #use or rao as first person #use of nai as second person

[hazellevessque]

If, in the FLF au, we keep the powers the same as in the FLF duology, it would be extremely funny and ironic as—

Aru (Orion) would have superstrength and Brynne (Phoebe) would be a sharpshooter with excellent aim

THAT WOULD MEAN ANILA TAUGHT BRYNNE HOW TO SHOOT

#aru shah #tpq #the pandava quintet #brynne rao #I have to take the psat in ten minutes but y’know what? It’s fine because now I have this information in my head #ask

[casuallydyinginthecorner]

Hi, how are you today? Hope you're doing good and have a great day/night/morning/evening/etc. wherever you are!

Could you please write some Aruden/Hirynne/Mindy headcanons or a fanfic? I'm not picky, I'm just so deprived of TPQ content :,,) Thanks a lot!

ANON I LOVE YOU SO MUCH /p

keep in mind I haven’t read the books in a while so some things might be inaccurate

Brynne and Hira are stupid. We know this. So when they tell the Potats they’re dating everyone’s like “yeah we already knew” because they were so bad at hiding it

anyway they make a lot of desserts together, especially cream puffs because those are Hira’s favorite

for her birthday Brynne made her a bunch of them with different flavored creams

one time Brynne walked in on Hira doing Just Dance with Nikita and Sheela and she almost melted

speaking of giving each other things, Rudy gives Mini little earrings with skulls made of amethyst

She thinks it’s very sweet but then talks with Rudy about the constant gifts and how it doesn’t mean they’re dating and everything

They do work it out and he ends up taking her on a date to a paint-your-own-pottery place

it turns out Rudy is also very good at painting! All his work is very shiny but it’s very detailed

Aiden has this fuzzy blanket at his house that Aru always steals whenever she comes over. It will be the middle of summer and you’ll see her walking around his living room wearing it like a poncho

Aru finds out that Aiden never had a stuffed animal as a kid so she takes him to Target and they spend five hours there looking for a stuffed animal. And by that I mean Aru is picking out several at a time, tries to choose between them, and then gives up and re-enacts scenes from Lotr with them

Aiden is surprisingly very cuddly! Whenever they watch a movie or something he always leans on her shoulder and it’s very cute

#Thank you so much anon I had so much fun with these #Sorry it came out late I’ve been very busy #Aru shah #aru shah headcanons #tpq #the pandava quintet #yamini kapoor mercado lopez #Rudy tpq #aiden acharya #brynne tvarika lakshmi balamuralikrishna rao #Hira tpq #Lightning smoulder #Hirynne #Mindy tpq #Asks #Ask glitter #Feat. Anon

[queenofapeacefuldawn]

what do you think TPQ would pursue in like college and what about their careers?

(Please note that I have no idea how colleges work, so there will be lots of inconsistencies)

(Long-ish post incoming)

Aru: It's a personal headcanon of mine, that she'd be a lawyer, but realistically, going by what's in canon, she'd probably major in history to be an archeologist like Krithika. So, a History major, going on to be an archeologist/historian.

Mini: Medicine. Bio major, goes onto be a surgeon. Maybe a minor in pathology.

Brynne: Cooking. I don't know the technical, college term, but she'd major in cooking (?), and maybe a minor in martial arts (does that even exist? Point is, she continues martial arts as a hobby)

Aiden: Journalism, specifically, photojournalism. Wants to work for the Times, or any popular newspaper. Does wildlife photography and cooking photography on the side.

Rudy: Depends on whether he goes to human college. But if he does, probably majoring in musical arts, and DJing. His main career is obviously, "King", but, has a popular Spotify account on the side.

Nikita: Designing, and business management, and, in designing, specifically, fashion. She opens her own boutique in the future, which is very successful, and surpasses the Seasons in popularity.

Sheela: Psych. I don't exactly have an explanation, just that Sheela is extremely empathetic, and would be a good psychologist, so, yeah, psych.

Hira: Interior designing. Somebody posted a headcanon about Hira liking interior design, and I liked it a lot, so, interior design for her. Maybe even art, or event planning. We don't have much of her personality or interests, so I don't exactly have a solid idea for her.

Thanks for the ask, anon!

#ask #anon #the pandava quintet #aru shah #brynne rao #yamini kapoor mercado lopez #prince rudy of naga loka #aiden acharya #nikita jagan #sheela jagan #hira

[wonderingprocrastinator]

Lijye khatti toffee

Mango ko Xerox krke best toffee milti (ifykyk) jgkgktgkyjiti!!!!!!!!

#rao asks

[verybadatcardgames]

Sightshipping for 001?

Also answering for @over-roaming-waves, who was curious.

Sightshipping

when I started shipping it: Back in 2017, I started drafting a fic about their adventure in Egypt trying to hide the God Cards. It was really supposed to be a drama/humor fic about Isis having a constant headache and finding Pegasus to be an annoyance (because I personally found Pegasus to be an annoying character at the time), but as I kept writing, I really fell in love with both of the characters and imagining how their personalities would clash and complement one another

The adventure fic was up for a while, but I yanked it offline not long ago. The story is undergoing revisions and I want to redo it as a comic because I'm a masochist

my thoughts: Do you like to read novels?

I have so many thoughts, but for the sake of the ask, I will try to keep it short.

I really like the idea of them being so set in their plans pre-series and not really being amicable at the start, the both of them so committed to their pasts and their Items that it blinds them from seeing any alternatives from their personal life scripts. Then both their plans go up in flames (Pegasus loses Duelist Kingdom and Seto shows Isis the grim fate she believed in is not infallible), they both lose their Items, and with Atem crossing into the Afterlife, they're no longer tied into the Great Game. So now they have this freedom to explore the future and what the world has to offer, but there's also uncertainty and powerlessness in not being able to foresee what is coming, not knowing what other people are thinking, and not knowing what to do next.

And somewhere in there, I like imagining them going from business acquaintances to friends to lovers.

(also my constant daydream about Isis wanting to confess to Pegasus that she foresaw him getting the Eye ripped out of his head but didn't say anything back then because she didn't believe she could alter destiny with a warning but uh oh-oh no Seto proved you can change the future so she feels like utter crap that Pegasus nearly died and fears he won't want to talk to her again and the looming sense of dread and judgment haunts her; she's so scared he's gonna kick her to the curb when he learns she could have saved him so much grief if she had just said something

and she's so absorbed in the guilt of her past inaction that she doesn't realize Pegasus can plainly see she's torturing herself with all these thoughts so he reaches out and touches her hand and

ok I'll shut up)

What makes me happy about them: The possibilities--in the anime timeline. They're both alive and there is a chance something could happen. Daydreams and headcanons abound

What makes me sad about them: They stand in a room staring at each other for less than 10 seconds in the anime. Isis talks about wanting to "fulfill his wishes" offhandedly in the manga (by getting the God Cards back from her brother). The most dialogue we see exchanged between the two of them is in a GBA game

MY CROPS ARE THIRSTY AND I AM KEEPING THEM ALIVE WITH A NOVELTY SHOT GLASS

things done in fanfic that annoys me: Oh

Oh honey

There is not enough fanfic of this rarepair for that to be a thing

things I look for in fanfic: I dunno I have to look at my WIP folder

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Isis with her job and intermittent dates with Aileen Rao; Pegasus sober with his art supplies and comics

My happily ever after for them: Married with 5 kids but one of them is a daughter biologically fathered by Seto Kaiba after Isis and Pegasus have a heated threesome with him in Marrakesh. Isis and Pegasus know the kid is Seto's, but they don't tell him because it would make things complicated, but Seto does eventually find out at his daughter's 13th birthday party. Seto punches Pegasus in the face and tells him he isn't surprised Pegasus could be that cruel but he can't believe Isis hid the truth from him, which leads to Isis' oldest daughter resenting her because she believes she was the product of an affair, even though she wasn't, but the fine details were not disclosed as Isis thinks the news that Pegasus isn't her biological father was already traumatic enough and she felt it wasn't appropriate to tell her teenage daughter she was conceived during a passionate threesome

Like it all works out in the end when all their kids are adults with their own lives and it gets better after a lot of shit hits the fan but that's my future/next gen "happily ever after" headcanon

who is the big spoon/little spoon: It switches, but I'd say Pegasus is the big spoon 70% of the time. He likes to hug Isis to his chest and doesn't want to let go because she is warm and comfy

And he has PTSD related to this

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Morning, afternoon, and evening tea time--and movie night.

#ask #sightshipping #pegasus #maximillion pegasus #pegasus j crawford #isis ishtar #ishizu #ishtar #aileen rao #yugioh #ygo #dm #duel monsters #seto kaiba #headcanons #fanfic woes

[doodlboy]

redacted! honey plz tell me who your fave boy is

(i am so normal about this i swear)

[Is it too greedy if I say all of them-]

Overall, my favorite is Milo!! His intro audio of him cussin sweetheart out in a new jersey accent just really [sighs dreamily] Ksdbwkdn-

I was gonna draw my hc of Milo's look, but fsr my brain decided 2 draw Sam instead. Which is still ok bc I also love me a southern vampire, so!! Here is a little Sam doodle! [Subject 2 change the more I draw em since this is a first attempt skdjdk]

#i rlly just- [rattles the bars of my cage foaming at the mouth] #i am very much not normal #also thanking rao 4 introducing me 2 them so i can be abnormal about them #redacted audio #redacted sam #smrttrtl #thank you for the ask #elliot doodles #elliot rambles #sam and milo are in my top favorites for sure #silly little men with silly little accents #i would lovingly gnaw on all the redactedverse men thooooo #i feel like sam is the kinda guy that doesn't smile as much as he does the 🫤 thing that ppl do 2 strangers that isn't a full smile yk

[seaquestions]

FELLOW SPORTS HYPERFIXER I SALUTE THEE. i used to have an insane interest in volleyball and made my own teams too! it was super fun and im glad you get to experience it through hockey!!!

omg YEAH it really is soooooo much fun to make ur own teams 🥰 i credit this to me watching goon (2011) and realising “oh uh, the halifax highlanders and the québec victoires arent real teams, duh, they made that shit up… omg wait does that mean that I can make shit up?? MOI?? YIPPEEE”

#asks #and now im 4.5k words into writing what was supposed to be just a little thing exploring my new ocs dynamics #its turning into merely the intro to a whole coming of age story. theres very little gay stuff and a LOT of hockey. #its so great. its like i made my own crosby. or my own mcdavid. and he is a 5’10 shithead kittycat (literal). #blake rao the blorbo that you are….again. i cant wait to introduce him and conor to you all. i love them theyre soooo emotionally stunted 💗